After closing the deal on its buy of Motorola Home just six months ago, Google sold the consumer video division to Arris Group late Wednesday evening in a $2.5 billion cash-and-stock package, making Arris one of the world's largest set-top vendors. Rumors that Google would unload this … [Read more...]
Groupon Rumored to be Google’s Latest Acquisition Target
Groupon's (NASDAQ: GRPN) stock price shot up over 20% Friday amid rumors that Google might be courting the company as an acquisition candidate. Forbes discounted the rumor as a stupid rumor of the week, calling it, "A rumor so silly that no right-minded person would think it … [Read more...]
Google Will Start Charging Small Businesses to use “Google Apps”
Google (GOOG) announced today that it will begin charging new small and medium sized businesses (SMB) to use its cloud-based Google Apps for business software. Existing small business customers will be grandfathered in and will still have free access, as will individuals, but new … [Read more...]
